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Debby Ward

Debby Ward is the Founder and Owner of Prior Unity Garden, Growing Your Own Organic Food Made Easy.Debby is an entrepreneur, educator, presenter, manager, and organic/biodynamic gardener, with over 40 years of gardening experience.Her interest in growing plants started as soon as she could crawl around the family garden.Her family always had food and herb gardens in which she participated and she has continued that tradition.

She began intensively growing herbs and vegetables in the late 1980s as she started a homemade salsa and herb blend business from 200 containers on her patio. She began focusing on plants for food and medicine as a young adult and holds several certificates in medicinal herbalism and has training in native plants, biodynamics, organic and native gardening, apothecary management, vegetarian cooking, public speaking, small business management, project management, time management, risk management, negotiation, and conflict resolution. She has also run a small music production company and worked in IT for the US Federal Government.

Debby loves to help grow gardeners and has trained Master Gardeners in Fairfax County VA for the County Extension Office, taught for The Mason Sustainability Institute, Washington Gardener Magazine, the Take Back Your Health Conference, Love Your Body and Grow Your Health Gardening, Food and Wellness Festivals, and for many other local organizations and groups.

She is the past President of Joe Pye and Friends, the National Capital Area Herbal Network and has written many articles on individual herbs and topics such as Herbs for Diabetes, Stress Relief and Cherokee Healing. She has written a booklet on Seed Starting and Safe Seed Buying as well as all the course materials for Prior Unity Garden classes.Debby created The Organic Garden Guide & Veggie Layout Handbook and the Prior Unity Garden product line.

Debby loves to ‘paint with plants’ as she now calls it, combining her love of plants with her fine arts degree and sense of style, color and space.Debby has built Prior Unity Garden to assist others in achieving their organic garden goals and dreams and values biodiversity, community, healthy living soil, fresh organic food, music and the prior unity inherent in all beings.